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TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective climates
T2 - A test of their sociopsychological significance
AU - Patterson, Malcolm
AU - Payne, Roy
AU - West, Michael
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - This article contributes to debate on the measurement of organizational climate. Use of means cloaks wide variations in individual perceptions. Use of clustering techniques to identify groups of people who see climate in a similar way has been questioned because such "collectives" may not represent meaningful sociopsychological groups. The present work is based on the view that meaningful collectives are most likely to emerge when people work together on common tasks in relatively isolated and defined physical locations. In an organization in which such conditions exist, a clustering technique largely failed to identify meaningful social collectives.
AB - This article contributes to debate on the measurement of organizational climate. Use of means cloaks wide variations in individual perceptions. Use of clustering techniques to identify groups of people who see climate in a similar way has been questioned because such "collectives" may not represent meaningful sociopsychological groups. The present work is based on the view that meaningful collectives are most likely to emerge when people work together on common tasks in relatively isolated and defined physical locations. In an organization in which such conditions exist, a clustering technique largely failed to identify meaningful social collectives.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 39
SP - 1675
EP - 1691
JO - Academy of Management Journal
JF - Academy of Management Journal
SN - 0001-4273
IS - 6
ER -